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he was a character called Captain America in the movie Easy Rider.
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FlameHead said:Essentially Mephisto are the same character though. I mention that just to not confuse anyone.
Ullic, I'm not the only one with offical GR knowledge. Biggun is the real man when it comes to those questions actually. He's knows all things Blaze and most things Ketch. I know more about Ketch than Blaze and because of that my knowledge on Mephisto is limited as well. Biggun, MarvelMovies and I are definatly the long term Ghost Rider fans w/ lots of related knowledge though.
As for the question, I don't personally see Mephisto as a major villian for Ghost Rider. After the whole creation of the character incident, he never hung around much... though popped up to play his little games now and again.
Ghost Rider's main villian was himself; Zarathos. Blaze and Zarathos battled to be the owner of the body and that fight lasted for a very long time... even after they were separated in the final issue of GR v1. Zarathos returned to wreck havok on the world in the mid issues of GR v2.
Jayo said:OHH okay!! That's who it was! Zarathos (a.k.a the demon that possessed Johnny Blaze). Why didn't the screenwriter go with that story instead of having Mephisto grant Johnny Blaze his Ghost Rider powers?
FlameHead said:they had to explain a whole lot of story dealing with the bloodline of the whole situation... which is a complicated story, to say the least.
Um...Ghost Rider wasn't around in the 20s...hell, Marvel wasn't around in the 20s...typo?BIGGUN said:heh....you aint kiddin!
if only Jim Shooter had stayed on as editor for the 90s series it would have been a much better book. Shooter was also the one who kept the 70s series on track w/ the "demon taking over Blaze" storyline that started around the 20's up until the end of the book w/ Zarathos being trapped in the soul crystal.
Ullic said:Um...Ghost Rider wasn't around in the 20s...hell, Marvel wasn't around in the 20s...typo?
BIGGUN said:heh....you aint kiddin!
if only Jim Shooter had stayed on as editor for the 90s series it would have been a much better book. Shooter was also the one who kept the 70s series on track w/ the "demon taking over Blaze" storyline that started around the 20's up until the end of the book w/ Zarathos being trapped in the soul crystal.
TVGuide.com: Will there be any homages to Easy Rider in Ghost Rider [in which Fonda mentors Cage's supernatural vigilante motorcyclist]?
Fonda: Well, the chopper in the film is a lot like the design of my Easy Rider chopper, but not the same paint job. The shape, the rake, the high bars and the sissy bar in the back.... It's not a replica, but it's pretty close. It's called Grace and from that I create the Hell-Cycle.
TVGuide.com: Did you go back and look at the comic to inform how you should play the Mephisto character?
Fonda: I had read a few of them before, but I thought regardless of what the guy who wrote the comics had designed here, it was up to me to put it on the screen. As it was, they let me play totally against part. Let me tell you, nobody has played the Devil quite like I do. Oh, man, I loved it. It was really cool.
TVGuide.com: Do you approach something like Ghost Rider differently than you approached, say, your roles in The Limey or Ulee's Gold?
Fonda: I do the same amount of work, but they are definitely different types of characters. Ulee was a real character with real problems in real time. When I play the Devil in Ghost Rider, they've airbrushed gold into my hair. So whether I'm playing a beekeeper from North Florida, a scumbag record producer from L.A. or the Devil, each one presents a really cool opportunity for me to go to different places. And I've never repeated a character. That's what makes it fun for me.